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Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Religious And Racial Stereotyping: Causes Many Problems In Today's Culture

categorization. Inasmuch as racial and religious stereotypes are both unreasonable and erroneous, such predisposed opinions about...

Crime Theories: Comparison

enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for its presence, as well as the best way to approach therapeu...

Internet-Based Activities

the site entitled Endangered Specie.com, The Rarest Info Around, which is sponsored by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This site...

Twain/Cruelty in Huckleberry Finn

A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Cooperative Groups For Non-Native English Speakers

of cooperative learning is to encourage student accomplishment "by coupling individual accountability with group incentives and re...

ESL

of nationalities, which speaks to the continual need for effective English instruction. Some of the inherent difficulties and cha...

Learning Disabled Students and Mathematics

mathematics is strictly needed. By conducting such a study it was shown that learning-disabled students can indeed be taught such...

Aggression and Childhood Development

as well as aggressive behavior. Children are highly impacted by what is modeled to them as children, and if they are raised in an...

Difficulties Presented by Consonant Elisions in English as a Second Language

the proper manner in which to utilize the language, partly for their own benefit and partly for the benefit of foreign speakers. ...

Lifelong Education and Globalization

being developed as a means by which to create such commodities faster, cheaper and within "laboratories or non-traditional environ...

Behavioral Issues Among Students With Learning Disabilities

could accommodate virtually every child in class. Thankfully, it eventually became obvious that the problem with overwhelming num...

General Overview of Project Based Learning

mathematics, and writing achievement" (Stites, 1998). It has long been argued that the more involvement the student has in planni...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Treatment of Mental Illness

more common in boys than girls (Silka and Hauser, 1997). Determining the cause of retardation can be difficult and hard to pinpoin...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Interventions

In five pages this literature review considers noninvasive treatment of learning disorders, mental retardation, and mental illness...

Health Education and Technology

problem with the approaches of the past, which were to hand out pamphlets at health care centers, was that the pamphlets did not a...

Barney, Sesame Street, and the Colors Yellow and Purple

and love, was nothing like Sesame Street. Instead of the sophistication of Sesame Street (which, interestingly enough, had gone fr...

Learning Theories of Piaget and Miller

This paper provides a comparison of the learning theories put forth by Piaget and Miller. The author discusses Piaget's Developme...

Learned Helplessness and Interdependence Theories

helplessness. Growing up as the child of an alcoholic parent creates a great deal of pressure to handle home front issues at a ve...

Distance Learning and Education Online

and globalization of business. The University Alliance This site also brings together several traditional colleges...

How Teachers Can Avoid Making 25 Mistakes

problems. Public humiliation, such as standing in a corner, placing ones nose in a circle on the board, or allowing other students...

Film Director Gordon Parks

background is disadvantaged. Marcus is the son of a bitter, abusive man who hates whites with every fiber of his being. Marcus is,...

How Incredible Odds Against Them Were Overcome by Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

to construct a code for living that would be world-renowned. One of his favorite stories concerned a formative period in hi...

Children and Fairytales

that some children might find fairy tales to be a bit overwhelming. However, it is this precise extent of interaction that expert...

Teacher Advisory Unit Development

family is also considered an extremely valuable component in the substance abuse awareness unit being developed in this paper. ...

Change and the Learning Organization

Information can be tracked and gathered here as well - business process reengineering, for example, is one good way to re-design o...

Learning and How It is Governed

humanity in order to flesh out the various ways and reasons people learn what they do. The very nature of learning is found...

Elementary and High School Virtual Computer Field Trips

of Blooms taxonomy had the assignment not limited their access to the Internet. These outcomes were not uniform for all ind...

Kolb's Experiential Learning Model and the Entrepreneur

traits that have been identified for a person to start their own business is a need for achievement (McPhee, 2000). Wanting to be ...